Thursday, January 3, 2008

because these songs are about a firefighter ascending in the World Trade Center (and so much more ) and about Eurocentric education respectively and not about something so peculiar as a caucus, but still (I saw an opening and I took it)

The Rising by Bruce Springsteen

Can't see nothin' in front of meCan't see nothin' coming up behindI make my way through this darknessI can't feel nothing but this chain that binds meLost track of how far I've goneHow far I've gone, how high I've climbedOn my back's a sixty pound stoneOn my shoulder a half mile line

Come on up for the risingCom on up, lay your hands in mineCome on up for the risingCome on up for the rising tonight

Left the house this morningBells ringing filled the airWearin' the cross of my callingOn wheels of fire I come rollin' down here

Come on up for the risingCome on up, lay your hands in mineCome on up for the risingCome on up for the rising tonight

I see you Mary in the gardenIn the garden of a thousand sighsThere's holy pictures of our childrenDancin' in a sky filled with lightMay I feel your arms around meMay I feel your blood mix with mineA dream of life comes to meLike a catfish dancin' on the end of the line

Sky of blackness and sorrow ( a dream of life)Sky of love, sky of tears (a dream of life)Sky of glory and sadness ( a dream of life)Sky of mercy, sky of fear ( a dream of life)Sky of memory and shadow ( a dream of life)Your burnin' wind fills my arms tonightSky of longing and emptiness (a dream of life)Sky of fullness, sky of blessed life ( a dream of life)

Come on up for the risingCome on up, lay your hands in mineCome on up for the risingCome on up for the rising tonight

Take the Power Back by Rage Against the Machine

Yeah, the movement's in motion with mass militant poetryNow check this out...uggh!

In the right light, study becomes insightBut the system that dissed usTeaches us to read and write

So called facts are fraudThey want us to allege and pledgeAnd bow down to their GodLost the culture, the culture lostSpun our minds and through timeIgnorance has taken overYo, we gotta take the power back!Bam! Here's the planMotherfuck Uncle SamStep back, I know who I amRaise up your ear, I'll drop the style and clearIt's the beats and the lyrics they fearThe rage is relentlessWe need a movement with a quicknessYou are the witness of changeAnd to counteractWe gotta take the power back

Yeah, we gotta take the power backCome on, come on!We gotta take the power back

The present curriculumI put my fist in 'emEurocentric every last one of 'emSee right through the red, white and blue disguiseWith lecture I puncture the structure of liesInstalled in our minds and attemptingTo hold us backWe've got to take it backHoles in our spirit causin' tears and fearsOne-sided stories for years and years and yearsI'm inferior? Whose inferior?Yeah, we need to check the interiorOf the system that cares about only one cultureAnd that is whyWe gotta take the power back

Yeah, we gotta take the power backCome on, come on!We gotta take the power back

The teacher stands in front of the classBut the lesson plan he can't recallThe student's eyes don't perceive the liesBouncing off every fucking wallHis composure is well keptI guess he fears playing the foolThe complacent students sit and listen to some of thatBullshit that he learned in school

Europe ain't my rope to swing onCan't learn a thing from itYet we hang from itGotta get it, gotta get it together thenLike the motherfuckin' weathermenTo expose and close the doors on those who tryTo strangle and mangle the truth'Cause the circle of hatred continues unless we reactWe gotta take the power back

Yeah, we gotta take the power backCome on, come on!We gotta take the power back

No more lies

so in short: Come On Up for The Rising Tonight, Take the Power Back(cough with John Edwards cough cough)

Bruce Springsteen-The Rising [download]Rage Against the Maachine- Take The Power Back [download]